HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of June 22, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Hawaii Independent Physicians Association, HI
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 22, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12063, row:3202)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Hawaii Independent Physicians Association, reported that an employee’s email account may have been compromised affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 18,770 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its workforce members.